Haryana gangrape case:Bail plea of accused rejected

A Haryana court on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of a doctor and accused in the Rewari gang rape case Sanjeev.

According to a report, the bail plea was rejected after the Special Investigation Team argues that the investigation is still pending and more arrests were to be made.

Prime accused Nishu was remanded in judicial custody till October 5 at the end of his four-day police remand.

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Haryana Police on Sunday had arrested two key accused in the case, including an Army man, who kept changing their hideouts when they were on the run.

The accused Sanjeev was a medical practitioner who had attended to the woman first after the crime and Deendayal was the owner of the property where she was allegedly gang-raped

Army man Pankaj and another key accused Manish were nabbed from Satnali in Mahendergarh district in the morning near a dhaba, head of Special Investigation Team, which had been set up to probe into the case, said briefing the media at Rewari after their arrest.

Many local villagers have alleged that the property where the victim was gang-raped was used for "nefarious activities" in the past. The SIT said these allegations are already under investigation.

A woman was abducted at a bus stop in Kanina town in neighbouring Mahendragarh district on September 12 while she was on the way to a coaching class.

She was allegedly drugged and gang-raped at a room housing a tubewell for irrigation.

The gangrape had prompted opposition parties to demand Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar's resignation on moral grounds, alleging the state had failed to protect its daughters.

After the incident took place on September 12, the Haryana Police had set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by Mewat SP Naazneen Bhasin and announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh for information leading to the arrest of the main accused in the case.

The victim's mother, while demanding capital punishment for the prime accused, had earlier told reporters earlier that her daughter was in "acute trauma" after the incident.

Doctors who attended on the victim too had said she was in "severe trauma", though her vital health parameters were said to be stable.
The police had drawn flak for allegedly not initiating prompt action after the complaint was registered.

After the shunting out of Rewari Superintendent of Police (SP) Rajesh Duggal, a woman assistant sub-inspector had later been suspended over alleged delay in taking action in the gangrape case.

The victim's family had alleged that the police failed to take prompt action on their complaint and delayed action by citing jurisdictional issues between their units in Rewari and Mahendragarh districts.

(With inputs from agencies)